The only drawback to using exterior foamboard besides window installation is that it will release potent greenhouse gases throughout its life due to the blowing agents used in its production.

A thriving market exists only to supply con-artists passing gold-plated tungsten off as gold to naive gold buyers. 

We do not want your deal to go south, we do not want to take over your property,we want you to thrive and let us turn the money faster. 

But hopefully this is dictating OK and I'll just add  that their latest "new house rule" was conjured up by my recordings of the vice this man allowed to thrive in this building at least three heroin dealers arrested by local police and even the FBI, one of the sons arrested in 2012 for selling A gun, just a few months after taking wire cutters to the electrical closet in the building trying to figure out how to turn on his own electricity… Forgot to mention he and his family haven't paid common charges in over 10 years and yet this former management company under the helm  of Lou sent me a letter threatening my eviction for having less than adequate proof that this idiot actually did this… In fact I almost have a confession on video tape but that wasn't enough for the police to do anything,  as the police actually asked me that day when I called them "but did you actually see him do it with your own eyes?"

There's no real master plan beyond the reality that once I have thrived in 43608, there really isn't a tenant I can't manage or a property I can't tackle.That said there definitely are requests have had to I turn down...I have had investors approach me after they buy the wrong property, in the wrong place, in the wrong condition (really at any price) and I can't responsibly rehab and manage a turd.

It's a place thriving with fresh up and coming businesses, schools (SMC, UCLA) and hospitals (Ronald Reagan, St Johns, etc).

But I am pretty sure the investors I have met who thrive in CA (and Vegas) don't need the 1% rule to make a great profit.  

Manchester is a big thriving city that is still regenerating various areas and although developers flooded the market with new build flats a decade ago the inevitable drop in values and rentals has rectified it's self and growth is seen once more.With regard to further learning, local property meets where you can meet like minded investors (as well as someone pitching education and a variety of services) are invaluable to round your opinions and hear from people who are in the same position as you or were some time ago.As far as rental locations for students be mindful of the swathe of new builds in the bigger cities that have been build by universities them selves and the growing number that have build with investors in mind.

I personally still have a thriving retail listing business that exists symbiotically with and parallel to my investment business.

We well have to get around to doing that someday if we're going to thrive the way that we can.